Dark Shamans Matt Edmonds small-group teaching

small-group teaching

invigorating advice from a veteran teacher

names the technology of literary production'the diacritical relationship between decoding and encoding'that the literary imagination dissimulates as hieroglyphics'the hermeneutic relationship between a sign and its content

The Education of Black People approaches education with a timelessness and timeliness

Dark Shamans Matt Edmonds small-group teachingOn the little known and darker side of shamanism there exists an ancient form of sorcery called kanaima, a practice still observed among the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil, which involves the ritual stalking, mutilation, lingering death, and consumption of human victims. At once a memoir of cultural encounter and an ethnographic and historical investigation, this book offers a sustained, intimate look at kanaima, its